jouk

verb

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive)To evade, to dodge, to duck; also, to swerve.

   “[H]e can pray, and tell long Scrifts of Greek, / And broken Smatters of the Hebrevv ſpeak; / And in the Latin he is nicely read; / Can ſcrape and jouk; then is not he vvell bred?”

   “Dry stream channels descend the bare slopes into the valley floor, jouking this way and that to dodge tall extrusions of rock.”